Google and its science department have some great news. The company’s health-tech subsidiary Verily is working on a new way to estimate the risks associated with heart disease – by using machine learning. Data collected from people’s retina scans has been analyzed and put through proprietary software that can apparently predict a major cardiac event — […]

Alibaba is already having a rough time managing their business and reputation in the U.S. First affiliate Ant Financial’s proposed acquisition of MoneyGram collapsed due to objections from the U.S. government, now their giant marketplace Taobao has made its way (yet again) on the USTR (United States Trade Representative) naughty list. Taobao, Alibaba’s hugely popular […]

A new study published in the journal Lancet suggests that higher carbohydrate intake is associated with a higher risk of mortality, while a high fat intake with a lower risk. It was conducted by an international team of scientists who studied the cases of more than 135,000 people and their diets between 35 and 70 […]

Figures show that more than half of Norway’s new cars being sold in 2017 were electric or hybrid, moving the country closer to carbon-free (or at least carbon-reduced) transport. All-electric as well as a few hydrogen-powered cars with zero-emission rating made up 20.9% of total sales in 2017, according to official figures released on Wednesday. […]

Almost everyone saw or at least heard of the carnivorous Venus flytrap plant and it’s iconic snapping jaws. This plant (Dionaea muscipula) continues to surprise us with unexpected mysteries about its life cycle and modus operandi. There is still a lot that scientists don’t know about the biology of these carnivorous plants, but we’ve learned […]

Kevin Bradley, a professor of weed science at the University of Missouri says he’s bombarded with questions about dicamba – an old weedkiller chemical that is being used in new ways is making scientists like Bradley turn into pseudo-whistleblowers, confronting what they believe are misleading and scientifically unethical claims by Monsanto. Mike Owen, a weed […]

You would be forgiven if you thought this was a movie script for a dystopian movie, but unfortunately it’s not – Sicily is ripe with farms that exploit migrant workers in conditions similar to what we imagine when the word ‘slavery’ is mentioned. 40 farms were raided till August this year, and 33 of them […]

The United Nations secretary general, António Guterres, reminded all parties that the Security Council cease-fire warning for Syria – adopted unanimously over the weekend – must be enforced at once. “Security Council resolutions are only meaningful if they are effective,” Mr. Guterres said at the opening of a session of the Human Rights Council in […]

Google’s advanced artificial intelligence system, Alpha Go, made exclusively for beating human players in the popular board game Go, has accomplished its mission and is now ready for retirement. The AI, developed by Google’s subsidiary DeepMind, fought Go’s toughest players, including 19-year old Ke Jie, who was beaten 3-0 in a series of matches hosted […]

Leah Smith is a successful footwear model who works with famous photographers in Vancouver where she lives. But despite her beauty and success, her ex-boyfriend hockey player [name omitted] let his desires take the steering wheel when he cheated on her with a 10-year younger model. Naturally, she was hurt – but she was also […]